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From: Matthew.Desmond@p0.f178.n221.z1.fidonet.org (Matthew Desmond)
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Subject: Re: DesTerm 2.00
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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 90 13:59:46 EST
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Ben:
 
 > I recently downloaded DesTerm 2 from milton.u.washington.edu.
 > When I
 >         RUN "DESBOOT2.00",U9
 > the picture appears, and the tune plays. After the dialog
 > box disappears,
 > it goes into terminal mode and hangs. CTRL-RUNSTOP, ESC,
 > and HELP have no
 > effect. I am using a 128D with a 1581 and Aprotek Minimodem-24,
 > a
 > configuration which worked just fine with DesTerm 1.
 > If anyone has any idea what the matter could be, please
 > respond!
 > Thanks for any & all help.
There are a couple of situations under which DesTerm 2.00 will lock 
up:
 
If you have a second SID chip (or Dr Evil Labs stereo SID cartridge) 
or GEORam installed, DesTerm is fooled into thinking you have a Dr 
Evil Labs Swift-Link 232 cartridge.  DesTerm then sends the init string 
to the cart, and hangs waiting for the transmiter holding register 
to clear ('cos a SID or GEORam won't clear it!). Solution: remove 
second SID or GEORam.  V2.10 (I'm working on it) will fix this problem.
 
I had a user constantly complaining that DT crashed - it turns out 
that cleaning the drive heads fixed it.
 
If neither of these situations apply to you, try running DesTerm without 
the modem plugged in (to the C128).  If it works ok, re-configure 
the modem type (default is 1670 I believe) to be either Hayes or Inverted 
Hayes...
 
Hope this helps. If not, please give more system info...
 
Matthew E. Desmond, author of DesTerm 128.



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